 Successful Dutch Baseball Team returns home
Nederlands
...Sidney de Jong & Rob Cordemans...
...with the World Cup...
(© Photo: Henk Seppen) |
 SCHIPHOL -
The successful Dutch Baseball Team on Tuesday-morning returned home and got a warm and crowded welcome from hundreds of fans at Schiphol Airport near capital Amsterdam.
...Manager Brian Farley...
...We're Number 1...
(© Photo: Henk Seppen) |
The team was not only awaited by fans and family-members, but also several camera-crews and reporters, representing tv-stations, shows and newspapers.
About an hour after landing, the players arrived in the arrival hall.
There, they were congratulated by the fans, signed autographs, posed for photos, gave interviews and were re-united with their families.
,,We never expected something like this.
It's enormous'', Rob Cordemans said later during a press conference.
Responding to the question what makes baseball such a fun sport, Cordemans, the winning pitcher in the final game last Saturday against Cuba, stated: ,,Well, winning the world title is pretty special''.
Manager Brian Farley again underscored that winning the world title was a 'team effort'.
But the American-born Farley also reacted to the sudden attention by the press.
,,We would have deserved more attention in the period leading up to the World Cup'', Farley said.
,,I hope you will continue to give us this attention.''
After the press conference, players had a get-together with their families, before going home.
The Dutch Federation will honor the team on November 11 at a to be announced location.
,,As of now, Haarlem, Utrecht and The Hague have shown interest to organize it, which will be done combination with the annual Stars Awards when we will name and decorate the best baseball and softball-players of the previous season'', said Ruurd Koopmans, Secretary of the Board of the KNBSB.
Later on the day, several players had appearances on national and local tv-shows.
(October 18)
...After the plane landed, it was ecorted to the gate...
(© Photos: Schiphol Group) |
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...The players and staff walk toward the Arrival Hall and are applauded...
(© Photos: Schiphol Group) |
...Hundreds of fans welcomed the team at the airport...
(© Photo: Henk Seppen) |
...Camera-crews awaited the World Champion...
(© Photo: Henk Seppen) |
...Interviews were done with fans...
(© Photo: Marco Stoovelaar) |
...Waiting for the players...
(© Photo: Marco Stoovelaar) |
...Fans carried banners...
(© Photo: Marco Stoovelaar) |
...and more banners...
(© Photo: Marco Stoovelaar) |
...Former National Team-players Jacky Jackoba and Adonis Kemp...
...the father of Dwayne Kemp and former teammate of Rob Cordemans...
(© Photo: Marco Stoovelaar) |
...Assistant Coach and Team Manager Tjerk Smeets talks with the press...
(© Photo: Marco Stoovelaar) |
...Physical Therapist Rob Tamminga is welcomed...
(© Photo: Marco Stoovelaar) |
...The players had to walk through lots of fans...
(© Photo: Henk Seppen) |
...Rob Cordemans with former player Jacky Jakoba, who still holds...
...the single-season homerun record (24)...
(© Photo: Henk Seppen) |
...Tom Stuifbergen with girl-friend Ginger de Weert, who won European Gold in...
...August with the Dutch Softball Team and Silver with her clubteam...
...Iber Lengua Terrasvogels during the Cup Winners Cup-tournament...
(© Photo: Marco Stoovelaar) |
...Bryan Engelhardt hands out signatures...
(© Photo: Marco Stoovelaar) |
...Rob Cordemans, David Bergman, Sidney de Jong and Manager Brian Farley...
...during the press conference...
(© Photo: Henk Seppen) |
...Rob Cordemans, David Bergman and Sidney de Jong...
...show the World Cup...
(© Photo: Henk Seppen) |
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